Marcia Angell

Former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine; Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

"The Truth about the Drug Companies"

(in collaboration with the College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences and the Institute of Medicine and Humanities)

8:00 P.M.
Monday, 19 October 2009
University Theatre

Americans spend more than $200 billion a year on prescription drugs.  What are they getting for their money?  Dr. Angell, a distinguished medical expert recently honored by Time magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential Americans, will provide a disturbing answer to this question. 

In addition, Dr. Angell will also be giving a seminar titled "Health Reform:  Realistic and Unrealistic" from 3:10-4:30 p.m. in the St. Patrick Hospital Conference #2/3.

You may also download a pod cast of the lecture here.
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